MOSQUITO GETS CAR BUT HE DOESN’T HAVE A LICENCE
FORMER Commonwealth flyweight boxing champion, Arifonso “Mosquito” Zvenyika, DOES NOT have a driver’s licence.
Mosquito received a brand new car and cash from Harare businessman Wicknell Chivayo.
However, he could not get the car from the dealers who sold the car because he does not have a driver’s licence.
These are the same complications he has been facing since he rose to fame after winning the Commonwealth flyweight boxing title in 1998.
Mosquito bought a Toyota Crown using the prize money he won after grabbing the Club title.
But he was later arrested and convicted for driving without a valid driver’s licence.
This time, he said, he wants to be very careful and play it according to the rules.
Yesterday, Mosquito viewed the Toyota Aqua he is receiving from Chivayo and tested the comfort of the vehicle.
His wife, Jesman Zvenyika, also tested the comfort of their new vehicle.
Jesman also does not have a driver’s licence. This means the couple could not take the vehicle from the dealer’s workshop.
The couple returned home in a hired car.
Mosquito said the gifts came when he least expected them
“I was not expecting anything better in my life, besides relying on prayer.
“I was caught unprepared because I do not have a driver’s licence — neither does my wife.”
He said he will get the licence as soon as possible and then collect the vehicle properly.
“As for the cash, my wife’s life is back, and now I can take her to the medical doctors. “I have been healed today and my bones have been given new strength and life.
“My wife’s life is back.
“Vabvisa marombe muguruva. Vararamisa mapfupa angaoparara. May the Almighty God continue to bless him.
“Remain blessed, Sir Wicknell Chivayo.”
He revealed that he had been struggling financially.
“I was struggling to meet medical bills and even paying school fees for my children.
“You have healed our bones and revived our spirits.”
Madzibaba Chipaga, who runs the dealership, said the car will be released to Mosquito once he obtains a valid driver’s licence.
“We cannot allow you a test drive since you are not licensed to drive.
“The car is yours forever. You can come and see it daily even wash it, but you must collect it when you obtain a driver’s licence,” Madzibaba Chipaga said.One of Mosquito’s friends, Harrison Risinamhodzi, accompanied the former boxing champion.
“I wrote an article about donating groceries to Mosquito and posted it on social media on April 26 and I want to believe that this is the article Chivayo read.
“I did this without any payment, but kana zvakadai, I expect appreciation,” Risinamhodzi said.Another former boxer, Charles Manyuchi, collected his GD6 and cash yesterday.6
_Herald_
*MILITARY MECHANISMS FACE MUTILATION, BARRACKS AND A SHATTERED ARMY COMMAND TO BE UNLEASHED BY CAB 3*
By Parly Reporter
HARARE — The raging legislative battle over Constitution Amendment
Bill No. 3 (CAB 3) has breached the perimeter of Zimbabwe’s most
guarded institution—the defense forces. While public outrage has
fixated on the calculated, retroactive extension of political terms to
2030 and the gutting of the democratic ballot box, political analysts
speaking to this publication warn that a deeper, more existential
restructuring of the state is quietly targeting the security sector.
Top regional political analysts contend that by collapsing the
separation of powers and concentrating absolute, unchallengeable
authority within a civilian executive presidency, CAB 3 effectively
dismantles the traditional power balance. As one prominent
Harare-based intelligence and political analyst noted on condition of
anonymity, “What we are witnessing is not just an electoral shift, but
a calculated legislative maneuver that systematically strips the
Zimbabwe Defense Forces (ZDF) of its historical veto power,
transforming the barracks from a co-author of state power into a
permanently subservient instrument of a civilian autocracy.”
The historical trajectory of Zimbabwe’s governance has long relied on
a delicate, often tense partnership between the ruling ZANU-PF party
and the military command, a dynamic permanently codified during the
2017 coup d’état. While the 2013 Constitution intentionally preserved
explicit institutional buffers to distribute accountability and
maintain clear legal parameters around executive command, analysts
argue CAB 3 enacts a slow-motion constitutional coup that severs this
traditional nexus.
“By replacing the direct popular vote for the presidency with an
indirect parliamentary selection system, the bill alters the very
source of executive legitimacy,” explained Dr. Simba Manyanya, a
veteran political commentator. Manyanya observed that under the new
framework, the President will no longer derive authority from the
national electorate—a vulnerability that historically required the
military’s logistical and coercive backing to sustain—but from a
heavily managed parliamentary college.
According to briefing documents reviewed by analysts, this structural
insulation of the presidency fundamentally undermines the defense
forces’ leverage over state operations. To secure this new legislative
fortress, the bill grants the President unilateral authority to expand
and pack the Senate to 90 members by handpicking ten additional
“skilled” senators, ensuring an artificial ruling party supermajority.
“The moment a parliamentary-elected President controls the very body
responsible for sustaining his incumbency, the traditional rules of
Zimbabwean politics change overnight,” stated civil society legal
analyst Kudzai Mpofu. Mpofu argued that for the defense forces, this
means the civilian executive will no longer require high-risk security
interventions or military-backed election campaigns to maintain
political survival. “The center of gravity shifts entirely to a closed
constitutional loop, effectively rendering the military’s political
leverage obsolete,” Mpofu added.
The operational autonomy of the defense forces is further paralyzed by
the bill’s aggressive assault on the judiciary and administrative
infrastructure. CAB 3 entirely eliminates public interviews for
judges, granting the President unchecked power over promotions within
the twin apex courts and reconfiguring the Supreme Court into a weak,
intermediate appellate body.
Independent defense analysts point out that this total capture of the
judiciary removes the final independent forum where disgruntled
military factions or retired liberation war veterans could legally
contest executive directives. Historically, the courts provided a
neutral buffer; under CAB 3, as one legal expert observed, “the
executive will handpick the exact judges who will inevitably rule on
the legality of military deployments, defense budgets, and command
structures, leaving the barracks with zero legal recourse.”
This institutional entrapment has already triggered deep fractures
within the security architecture, shattering the illusion of a unified
elite consensus. Intelligence analysts point to recent political
developments as proof of this friction. During initial Politburo
briefings, Vice-President and former military commander Constantino
Chiwenga explicitly broke ranks, arguing that the sweeping structural
changes must be subjected to a national referendum rather than forced
through a submissive parliament. This internal rebellion was
immediately backed by Ethan Mathibela, the Chair of the Zimbabwe
National Liberation War Veterans’ Association, who launched a
principled defense of the 2013 constitutional settlement.
“The resistance from these military stalwarts stems from a very
clear-eyed, pragmatic realization,” noted Dr. Manyanya. “By allowing
the President to bypass Section 328’s strict anti-accumulation
protections, the bill allows the incumbent civilian executive to
completely outmaneuver the long-standing internal succession
agreements brokered within the security council after 2017.”
Furthermore, analysts warn that the transfer of critical electoral
data operations from the independent Zimbabwe Electoral Commission
(ZEC) back to the presidentially appointed Registrar-General directly
disrupts the military’s strategic intelligence mapping. Historically,
the defense forces maintained a sophisticated parallel logistical
network synchronized with electoral data to manage national stability.
“By reducing ZEC to a hollow administrative shell and returning voter
registration, rolls, and delimitation lines to a standard civil
service department under the Ministry of Home Affairs, the civilian
executive builds an exclusive, opaque data fortress,” Mpofu explained.
Analysts agree that the Presidency, operating through a single cabinet
minister, will gain total control over boundary gerrymandering and
voter disenfranchisement, effectively locking out independent military
intelligence over-watch from electoral logistics.
As the ZANU-PF government pushes for a mandatory open vote via a
division of the House by the end of June, political analysts conclude
that the defense forces face a radical, permanent institutional
eviction. Analysts unanimously warn that by weaponizing the law to
construct a self-sustaining civilian autocracy insulated by a captured
judiciary and an unelected senate, CAB 3 achieves what decades of
opposition politics could not: it structurally disarms the barracks,
traps the military command within an unbreakable legal cage, and
leaves the defense forces entirely subservient to a permanent
executive monopoly.
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Member of Parliament for
Hatcliffe, Agency Gumbo, was recently quoted saying the military must
not be stripped of its powers, insisting that the army should continue
upholding the Constitution.
*Zimbabwe receives 139 returnees fleeing xenophobic violence_*
GOVERNMENT has put in place measures to facilitate the smooth movement of Zimbabwean citizens returning through the Beitbridge Border Post after fleeing xenophobia-motivated attacks targeting migrants living and working in South Africa.
With the assistance of the Zimbabwean Embassy in South Africa, Government has, over the past three days, evacuated 139 citizens back home.
The first group of 74 people, comprising 49 adults and 25 accompanied children, arrived from Mossel Bay in the Western Cape, while another group of 35 adults and 30 children travelled by road from KwaZulu-Natal province yesterday.
The returnees are destined for Chegutu, Chipinge, Chiredzi, Sanyati, Masvingo, Gweru, Kwekwe, Bikita, Bulawayo and other towns across the country.
Embassy officials in South Africa are continuing to document and assist Zimbabweans seeking voluntary repatriation amid growing safety concerns.
A number of State agencies met in Beitbridge yesterday and agreed on several interventions aimed at ensuring the safe passage of Zimbabweans based in South Africa.
District Civil Protection Committee chairperson Miss Sikhangezile Mafu said authorities had identified the Government-run Reception and Support Centre to process returnees arriving at Beitbridge.
The Reception and Support Centre has the capacity to accommodate up to 1 000 people, including adults and minors, on a daily basis.
“We have met with all State actors and agreed on the need to ensure a seamless process by the returnees through our town. So, we have identified the Reception and Support Centre as a processing centre for the returnees as the receiving town of Beitbridge.
“We are using the ‘Whole of Government Approach’ so that the whole process becomes seamless. All the sub committees have been activated to outlay plans on health, transport, health, resource mobilisation and social protection. So far we are happy to note that on the ground, everyone is playing their role effectively. In fact, we have handled more human traffic before and we will continue using the same strategies,” said Miss Mafu.
Miss Mafu said additional resources would be mobilised through various Government departments and development agencies in line with prevailing needs on the ground.
She said operations would be reviewed whenever necessary.
Upon arrival, the returnees are being received at the border by officials from the Department of Social Development, Immigration and other agencies.
They are subsequently offered counselling and psychosocial support, food assistance and transport before being taken to their respective homes.
“Such a process ensures that everyone arriving is assessed and provided with social support to help them reintegrate with their families and communities. We have the Ministry of Health and Child Care on standby for those with medical needs, the Department of Civil Registry attending to documentation issues, the Department of Social Development looking at social protection issues, the police focusing on safety and security issues among other Government agencies and Development partners.
“So, in short, we are ready to absorb any amount of pressure and it is our wish to make sure the processes are very seamless and in some cases these have been streamlined,” she said.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is assisting returnees with food, hygiene kits for men and women, as well as Non-Food Item (NFI) kits comprising plates, mugs, kitchen knives, spoons, pots, mosquito nets, water buckets, water purification tablets, washing and bathing soap and bags.
The repatriation exercise comes amid protests and attacks on migrants in parts of South Africa, with Mossel Bay among the areas that have reported violence targeting foreign nationals.
In separate interviews, some returnees commended Government for swiftly responding to their distress calls and facilitating transport back to Zimbabwe.
